Chindamo was born in Milan in August 1980, but moved to the Philippines with his mother at the age of four after his parents broke up.

From that point he had little contact with his father, Massimo, who went on to be jailed in Italy for an acid attack on a former lover.

When he was six, Chindamo moved to London with his mother and two brothers and went to infant, junior and secondary schools in London.

But he was uninterested in school and regularly played truant, spending much of his time with a gang calling themselves the Woo Sang Wu – or street warriors – modelled on the Chinese mafia.

During his murder trial his solicitor, Nigel Leskin, said: "He was involved with a gang when he was young. He was a kid trying to act up big. He was out of control and he thought he knew everything. He now realises how wrong he was."